Conscience: the Mother-In-Law who Never Leaves

Image by david55king via FlickrCarry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don’t ever apologize for anything. – Harry S. Truman




The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. – Mao Tse-Tung



Strong men are made by opposition; like kites they go up against the wind. – Frank Harris



A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house. – Sir Montague Burton



There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless. – anonymous



The Devil’s boots don’t creak. – Scottish proverb



Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. – Henry Louis Mencken

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Rise Early, Work Late, Strike Oil

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The minute you start to talk about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost. – George P. Shultz

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. – Harry S. Truman

My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. – Jean Paul Getty

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. – Michael Korda

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. – Elbert Hubbard

There is only one success – to be able to spend your time in your own way. – Christopher Morley

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Don’t Set a (Goldman Sachs) Fox to Watching Your Chickens

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It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right. – Winston Churchill

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. – Ian E. Wilson

If two friends ask you to be judge in a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept, because you will gain one friend. – Saint Augustine

You don’t set a fox to watching the chickens just because he has a lot of experience in the hen house. – Harry S. Truman

It is only in our decisions that we are important. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear “on the other hand... – Herbert Hoover

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. – Calvin Coolidge

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Lack of Power Corrupts Absolutely

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If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. – Thomas Fuller

A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely – Adlai E. Stevenson

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows. – Clarence B. Randall

He’s fair. He treats us all the same – like dogs. – Henry Jordan

I never give them hell; I just tell the truth, and they think it’s hell. – Harry S. Truman

To command is to serve, nothing more, and nothing less. – Andre Malraux

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You Cannot Feed the Hungry on Statistics

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There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact. – Thomas H. Huxley

When you are drowning in numbers you need a system to separate the wheat from the chaff. – Anthony Adams

One of New York’s leading cultural institutions was about to undertake a costly study to find out which of its many exhibits was the most popular with visitors. Just before the consulting contract was signed, a committee member suddenly suggested asking the janitor where he had to mop the most. – Marilyn Machlowitz

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – David Lloyd George

Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet. - anonymous

Reporting facts is the refuge of those who have no imagination. Luc de Clapiers

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt. – Harry S. Truman

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin